Feb

25

Sucking Up Value

Filed Under Home and Decor 

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It was August in Florida. Not a time you want to go out in the daytime, if you can at all avoid it. It’s steamy and rainy so I decide to stay in and clean the house — and my cordless electric vacuum cleaner dies. So I drag the thing downstairs and out through the dampness and bring it to the closest service place, and the guy tells me it’s too small a unit to repair and they won’t honor the guarantee! I put on the charm and do my best to get him to change his mind, but he wasn’t having any of it. So, back into the steam, back to the house and onto the phone to voice my complaint to the manufacturer. By the end of the call, the sweet woman at the other end promises that a replacement machine should arrive at my home in 7 to 10 days.
 
Two weeks later and my carpet is very dusty, and no new vac has arrived. Back on the phone, another promise, and voila — two days later, a brand new vacuum.

And two days after that, another!

I often speak affirmations of abundance — maybe there is something to this affirmation stuff. I now have an abundance of vacuum cleaners.

Today’s lesson in living the frugalcious life: never take no for an answer. But always be nice about it. You may be pleasantly surprised!

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